AirPlay Streaming Hacked into the Old Apple TV (updated: giveaway!)

Old Apple TV is not dead! Remote HD has just released a new plugin for the old Apple TV that adds the missing AirPlay functionality. AirPlay can now be added to any first generation Apple TV by installing the Remote HD plugin and activating it using Remote HD iOS application. Once the plugin is activated, any AirPlay enabled application can be used to stream video and photos to the Apple TV.

According to the developer, all existing Remote HD customers get this functionality for free. AirPlay audio streaming will be added soon.

Remote HD’s Apple TV plugin must be installed and running on the Apple TV before you can control it with Remote HD. This part explains how to unlock your Apple TV using free opensource tools and install/upgrade Remote HD plugin on it:

Unlock your Apple TV using opensource atvusb-creator.
Step by step instructions can be found here and here.

“frontrow” without the quotes is the default password.
If prompted with a security prompt to confirm connecting, type in yes.

Thats it, you’re done! Now grab your device and have Remote HD scan for available connections. Your Apple TV should show up in the list of available WiFi-connections – just tap to connect!
The default password is empty.

I have hd remote hack installed on old hacked apple tv but I have not installed hd remote on iPad,I downloaded a free tv episode from iTunes and played it then hit the airplay button and selected apple tv and it played on tv through stock video app on iPad.
I thought you needed hd remote app to do this.

Johnny5k

This works great! Just 1 problem – still no audio AirPlay support? If you guys could get that working, this would be absolutely killer, and $3.99 well spent! Thanks for all the work on this!

Stwer

The SCP command you list now downloads an intel binary, this does not work on the first gen apple tv. is there a new link?

BumbleB

i thought my 1st gen apple was done for.. thanks for the hook up

http://www.gadgetme.net tlampen

this is stupid you need to buy their crappy app to make airplay work. Their remote control app is worthless…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=509100499 Anonymous

It allows me to stream video to my original AppleTV from other apps on the iDevice; not just their remote control app. Maybe it doesn’t do everything you want it to, but it’s far from worthless.

baba

which version of appletv os has to be installed? My atv1 one is not up-to-date and remote hd does not seem to work…

baba

even better, I can’t see my atv menu any more!

How to uninstall?

http://twitter.com/Eric_Hoffmann Eric Hoffmann

it works great !!!! thank you

Ipaston

AIRPLAY WORKS WEEL WITH REMOTE HD AND ATV GEN 1, BUT NOTHING STREAMS WHEN USING PLEX ON IOS5 IPAD 2 WITH AIRPLAY, I ONLY GET UNABLE TO PLAY VIDEO TYPE ! ANY IDEAS??

I love Remote HD when I’m using it to control my Mini connected to a projector. However I tried the solution listed here for Airplay and I no longer have video to my ATV Menu. I suspect the Remote HD install might have something to do with this.

My question: How do I uninstall Remote HD from the ATV?

Tjx1444

I should add to the question, how to uninstall the app via CLI?

Anonymous

The remote app seems pretty cool here. I don’t seem to be having any of the problems mentioned and audio, video and picture streaming all work with my two Gen1 AppleTV units once the plugin was installed through a terminal with SSH (both are already hacked). This is what I bought it for (Airplay on old Gen1 AppleTV units).

The really cool thing is that I can view what’s on my AppleTV’s screen. It’s not 30fps, but I’ve never seen anything else be able to remote view AppleTV (same can be done for the Mac/PC). The trackpad mode was smooth on my iPodTouch 4G. I can actually use mouse mode on XBMC with it (like having a blue tooth trackpad).

I did have a lockup using some button I wasn’t even sure what it was for (think it’s fullscreen/window button), but other than that, it seemed to work well so far. The app works in XBMC mode as well which means I can finally control XBMC on my AppleTV from my iPod Touch. The remote control app works on my old Gen1 iPod Touch as well, but Airplay doesn’t work there since iOS 3.x doesn’t support it.

I’m not crazy about the $8 price given the site for it still says it’s on sale for $4, but it was worth it to get Airplay to work on my two old Generation 1 AppleTVs. There’s even a keyboard mode for text (something Apple’s own Remote App can’t do) and it works in XBMC and AppleTV.

Postmaster

Brilliant!!! Thanks, screw Apple for not providing these features on ATV1

Tom

Seems to have disabled the iPad Apple ‘Remote App’ for me. I miss being able to use this. Anyone else have this happen?